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Dr. Dene Taylor

Specialty Papers & Films, Inc.

 

Member profile details

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First name
Dr. Dene
Last name
Taylor
Organization
Specialty Papers & Films, Inc.
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Contact information

City
New Hope
State or Province
Pennsylvania
Zip Code
18938
Country
United States
Phone
(215) 862-9434
Phone (Alternate)
(215) 808-0384
Alternate Web Site
www.metallograph.tech
 

Specialties and Services

Fields of Expertise
  • Colloids
  • Expert Witness
  • Licensing and Technology Transfer
  • Literature and Patent Searches
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Operations Troubleshooting
  • Pigments and Inks
  • Process Troubleshooting
  • Product Development
  • Technical
Other Fields of Expertise
• Printed & flexible electronics, RFID
• Digital printing aluminum or copper, conductive inks
• Inkjet printing, inkjet inks and inkjet printers
• Paper and paperboard
• Packaging and labels
• Printing, analog, digital, toner, gravure, flexo, offset, transfer
• Inks, coatings,
• Process and Operational Troubleshooting
• Coating paper, coating film, coating process
• Freeze initiation, ice formation
• Virus colloid chemistry
• Reactive emulsions, emulsion reactions
Summary
Consultant was trained as a colloid and surface chemist. This science factors in most manufacturing and natural processes that involve fluids and surfaces. His greatest experience is with paper, plastic films, inks and coatings. However, he also works with biological materials, and with the catalysis of freezing.
His expertise is of particular value for flexible and printed electronics, and RFID
The consultant is an investigator, innovator, integrator and inventor.
He also established a specialty manufacturing company so has a strong interest in profit-adding solutions.
Services
SPF-Inc. provides consulting services for companies participating in or associated with printing, specialty papers, films, composite wood, coatings and packaging. This includes substrate manufacturers, coaters and converters, equipment vendors, chemical and colorant suppliers, distributors, printers, labeling, packaging and bottling, as well as users and customers of these.

• Technical, Manufacturing and Operational Problem Solving
• Product Design, Development & Commercialization
• Process Design, Development & Commercialization
• R,D&T Leadership and Executive Advising (e.g., acting Chief Technical Officer)
• Vendor and Materials Enhancement
• Locating and Qualifying Superior Vendors
• Manufacturing Outsourcing
• Product and Raw Material Sourcing and Qualification
• Project Management: Establishment and Auditing
• Patents: Strategy, Value and Technical Assessment
• Expert Witness
More Services
Through Metallograph Tech we support flexible printed electronics developments & manufacturing by making examples to customer circuit design, and advising on integration into manufacturing production lines.
 

Additional Information

Additional Info
TECHNOLOGIES AND FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Specialty films & papers for diverse uses
• Films, Foils, Laminates and Over-Laminates
• Printed and Flexible Electronics
• Chemical indicator design and manufacturing
• POP, Outdoor, Floor, Fleet and Vehicle Advertising Materials
• Digital Photographic Reproduction
• Traditional (Offset, Gravure, Screen and Flexographic) Printing
• Digital (Laser, Ink Jet, Thermal Transfer and Electrostatic) Printing
• UV and EB Ink and Coating Technology
• Casting, Extruding, & Vacuum Coating, and Industrial Laminating
• 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
• Packaging and Labeling, including High Speed Label Application
• Gravure, Slot, Rod, Blade Rotary Screen and Roll Coating
• Durable and Regulated Applications
• Beverage & Flexible Packaging, including Pharmaceutical Uses
• Specialized Labels and Tags
• Surface & Colloid Chemistry (Nanotechnology)
More Additional Info
Current activities include:
• UV Cure printing for packaging, low migration inks and coatings, barrier films for packaging.
• Development of UV inkjet printing for flexible packaging;
• Digital printing for packaging
• Printed RFID and printed conductors for sensors
Experience
• Owner and Principal, SPF-Inc, since 2000. A technical consultancy.
• Founder and Owner, DECSTEC, 2001 - 2006. An innovator in digital photographic reproduction and printing on large sheets of aluminum, fiberglass and wood.
• Dunmore Corp, VP Product Development, 1997 - 2000. An industrial coater, metalliser and laminator of films for industrial purposes. Also toll manufacturing.
• Rexam Graphics, Technical Manager, 1987 - 1997 (prev. James River Graphics) A leader in the development of wide format digital printing, especially inkjet and electrography. Also a toll manufacturer.
• Mead Research. Research Manager, 1985-1987. A center of excellence for high quality printing and packaging papers.
• Union Camp Research. Scientist. 1982-1985. A center of excellence for premium paper boards.
More Experience
SPF-Inc primarily supports an industrial client base, but it also has clients with interests in manufacturing companies or manufacturing, including vendors, customers and ffinancial institutions.
Education
Ph.D., 1977, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. "The Colloid Chemistry of the Clay Mineral Allophane"

M.Sc. (Hons.), 1972, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ.
Patents
27 US patents as of 2017. Many with EPO or WIPO equivalents.
Notable:
US8,430,053 Color-changing emulsions for freeze indicators
US7,571,695 Freeze indicators, flexible freeze indicators and manufacturing methods.
US 6,171,422 Imaging element having a conductive polymer layer
US6,001,482 Ink jet receptor element having a protective layer
US5759636 Electrographic Imaging Element
US5,385,771 Outdoor poster grade electrographic paper
Publications
Column "On-Print", www.PFFC-Online.com/Onprint
Miscellaneous
SPF-Inc also has a cadre of skilled associates to call on to ensure project success. By working under the SPF-Inc umbrella the focus on value and timeliness is maintained.
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